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Strengthening America’s Electric Power Grid: How the Government and Industry Are Improving T&D Systems

June 28, 2024 admin Business, Distribution, dlr, dynamic line rating, full coverage, gets, grid enhancing technologies, grid hardening, International, news, power, power grid, reliability, resiliency, Smart Grid, T&D, Technology, transmission, transmission and distribution

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:26:32 +0000

The U.S. transmission and distribution (T&D) network is reliable and well-maintained, but as renewable energy continues being added to the grid, and demand increases due to growing data center needs […]

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U.S. Power Distribution System Reliability Has Declined Over the Past Decade: How to Make It Better

June 13, 2024 admin Business, fpl, full coverage, news, power, power grid, power podcasts, reliability, resiliency, s&c electric company, saidi, saifi, Smart Grid, T&D, Technology, the power podcast

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:16:10 +0000

SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) and SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) are widely used reliability indices that measure the performance of power distribution systems. SAIDI represents the total […]

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Communities Embrace Distributed Energy for Economic Uplift

June 11, 2024 admin combined heat and power, Community, ders, distributed energy, distributed energy resources, Distributed Generation, distributed power, microgrid, news, power, reliability, resiliency, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Emily Newton| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:28:57 +0000

Global communities increasingly turn to distributed energy resources (DERs) to boost their local economies and enhance energy resilience. Generating and managing power locally cuts energy costs and fosters sustainable development. […]

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Toyota Aims To Work Its Fuel Cell Magic With Iconic US Firm Kohler

March 1, 2024 admin backup, backup generators, backup power, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, data centers, diesel generators, Energy, Energy Storage, fuel cell, generator, generators, green economy, green hydrogen, grid, hospitals, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, kohler, nrel, renewable energy, resiliency, toyota, toyota mirai, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:25:15 +0000

Toyota and Kohler have developed a new commercial scale fuel cell system aimed at pushing diesel generators out of the market for backup power while offering new grid services, too.

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U.S. Deploys $3.5B Boost for Grid Resilience: Major Projects Revealed

October 18, 2023 admin Business, DOE, energy innovation, engineering, flexibility, full coverage, grid resilience, iija, interconnection, microgrid, news, Policy, power industry, Renewables, Research and Development, resiliency, Smart Grid, T&D, Technology, trends, utilities, Wildfire

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:55:54 +0000

Fifty-eight projects spearheaded by major U.S. power stakeholders will receive up to $3.5 billion in federal funding to improve grid flexibility and boost power system resiliency against extreme weather and […]

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DOE Proposes New Distribution Transformer Standards as Crippling Shortages Persist

December 29, 2022 admin Business, distribution transformers, DOE, energy efficiency, full coverage, grid, Legal & Regulatory, news, resiliency, T&D

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:46:45 +0000

Almost all distribution transformers produced or imported into the U.S. under a new energy efficiency standards proposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) could require amorphous steel cores starting in 2027. The measure, unveiled as industry grapples with a crippling shortage of distribution transformers, will serve a longer-term role to boost grid resiliency as a […]

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DOE Proposes New Distribution Transformer Standards as Crippling Shortages Persist

December 29, 2022 admin Business, distribution transformers, DOE, energy efficiency, full coverage, grid, Legal & Regulatory, news, resiliency, T&D

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:46:45 +0000

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Evolution and Continuation: How Distributed Control Systems Will Change and Adapt

December 7, 2022 admin abb, Commentary, dcs, distributed control systems, distributed power, Instrumentation & Controls, O&M, reliability, resiliency

Credit to Author: Johan Bjorklund| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 14:29:56 +0000

Are today’s Distributed Control Systems ready for what tomorrow could bring? Johan Björklund of leading global technology company ABB believes they are. Here he looks at how the DCS is adapting to meet the changing demands of users. Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been around for nearly half a century. Of course, both industrial processes […]

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Resilient Systems, Q&A With Jordan Cox: Expect the Unexpected With Resilient Systems

February 4, 2022 admin clean power, grid, national renewable energy laboratory, nrel, policy research, research, resilience, resiliency, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:05:59 +0000

A resilient system can withstand disruptions, mitigate potential losses, and recover rapidly. Planning for an unexpected event is a significant challenge, but one that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) researchers in the Resilient Systems Design and Engineering Group within the Energy Security and Resilience Center are working to address. In this interview, resilience researcher […]

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Working with Peers Is Critical to Power System Reliability [PODCAST]

March 29, 2019 admin connected plant, Cybersecurity, HACK, iiot, iiot cyber, iiot power, information sharing, Instrumentation & Controls, news, power podcasts, reliability, resiliency, stuxnet, Technology, the power podcast, Ukraine, william doering

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:59:46 +0000

When conversations around the power industry turn to computer hacking, more often than not experts say it’s not a question of if, but rather, how systems have been compromised. William Doering, adjunct professor in the John E. Simon School of Business at Maryville University and a director with Guidehouse—a management consulting services provider—said he has […]

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